ARK Survival Evolved Guide: How To Find Resources And Black Pearls

Scavenging and foraging in ARK: Survival Evolved.

ARK: Survival Evolved is a game about, well, survival, which means that you only ever have what you can scavenge and forage from the environment. Having these resources can be the difference between life and death in this game- so you need to know exactly how and where to find them. That’s where we come in with this guide!

Black Pearls

A mid-late game resource; you can find them by killing the creatures on all corners of ‘The Island’ map. The creatures you can kill to harvest these are:

Deathworm

Eurypterid

Ammonite

Trilobite

Tusoteuthis

Alpha Mosasaurus

The following resources can either be gained directly from the source, or by killing a dinosaur which nets you the best chances of getting them.

Wood can be obtained from Tress using a hatchet or obtained from Therizinosaur and Mammoth.